The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-29
Miscellaneous Notes.

A contract has been awarded to extend the
Georgia Central road forty miles from Ozark to
Clayton. Ala
The Denver & Rio Grande road was opened
Monday last to Aspen, Col, where are e Extensive
mining interests.
The railroads centering at Sheffield. Ala. con-
template the erection of a large, handsome de-
pot at that point to be built of IRON
The Atkinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
will erect at least 1--WE docks at a cost of $40 600
on the Missouri river near Sibley. besides the
building of the bridge:
Construction work has been commenced on
Povell's Valley road, which is to extend from
Knoxville to Cumberland Gap, connecting the
Louisville & Nashville and the Norfolk & WeS-
tern roads.
The roads operating in Illinois asking the
Railroad Commission of that State to allow
them to restore rates on coal to the old tariff,
the present rates not paying the roacs for haul
ing this class of traffic.
That the Chicago & Alton has seen its best
days q passenger route between Chicago and
Kansas City is becoming quite apparent with
the Wabash and the A.. T. & S. F. to compete
With between these points. which it will have
after a few weeks. A division of tho business
may be looked for
The A., #. g. S. r. propose to make the run
from Chicago to Kansas City in thirteen hours.
The quickest time made between those
points is twenty hours The A, T. 6 s. F. can
readily make that time and its trains
thirty-four miles per hour which is not
high speed on frst-class Western road
G. W. Smith, general manager and vico presi-
dent OF the A. IT. & S. F., is now in Boston. and he
tells the friends of the road that had they the
seventy engines now building for this company
they could use every of them to good ad
vantage. and the freight cars and passenger
coaches now in process of construction as well.
Six railways now begin or end at Jacksonville,
and others projected. In January, 1881,
there but 537 miles Of railway in Florida;
to-day there about 1900 miles, aud the
work of extension IS going forward SO fast that
one vars O m
Der OF miles completed IS even approximately
correct.
Chicag rail mills not contracting for any
light rails. Ninety per cent. of their orders are
now for rail weighing seventy pounds to the
yard. One of the proprietors OF a Chicago mill
says: The fever for rail extension seems to
have returned in full force and vigor, and 1888
will doubt absorb all the capacity of the
mills and supply works of the country. This is
more generally the case in this central country.
while East there seems less activity from
higher cost on account of longer distance freight.
The friends of the Wabash Western road are
disposed to look upon the forming of another
alliance with the Wabash proper with disfavor.
AS the matter stands the Wabash Western
is doing more business than at any time in it's
history 1t acts independently of the Wabash
east of the river. AS aconssqnence, other lines
are literally turning their Western business
over TO the Wabash Western. and the latter
ciprocates a manner which it could not do
were 1t allied with the Wabash east of the river.
Some months ago Bluford Wilson. of Spring
field, ILL.,, entered a complaint to tho Railroad
Commission of Illinois alleging that the Louis
Vile, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad Company
had violated the statute of Illinois which re-
quires n rity Of the directors to be residents
of the State and had elected a majority of them
from persons not residents of Illinois. The rail-
road com PAW answered. justifyiEg the action
complained Of and alleging that the law referred
to is unconstitutional The commissioners
further considered the matter of complaint and
decided to direct the Attorney general to bring
an action against the company for violation of